The invention discloses a
system for detecting the rotating angle of a
tail end of a flexible mechanical arm. A
laser emitter is mounted at the
tail end of the flexible mechanical arm, and irradiates to the direction of a rotating shaft of a driving device of the flexible mechanical arm. The invention further discloses a method for detecting the rotating angle of the
tail end of the flexible mechanical arm. The detection method comprises the following steps: when the flexible mechanical arm rotates, a PSD sensor which is mounted above the rotating shaft of the driving device and is perpendicular to the flexible mechanical arm receives incident light from the
laser emitter; the center-of-gravity position of light spots emitted from the
laser emitter on the PSD sensor, and the rotating angle of the rotating shaft of the driving device, which is measured by an
encoder, are transmitted in real time to a computer through a data acquiring card; the real-time rotating angle of the tail end of the flexible mechanical arm is calculated by the computer according to the center-of-gravity position of the light spots and the rotating angle of the rotating shaft of the driving device. The
system and the method, which are disclosed by the invention, better solve the detection problems of the rotating angle of tail end of flexible mechanical arms, a non-contact measurement manner is adopted, and the detection
system has the advantages that the properties are stable, the precision is high, the cost is lower, and the applied range is wide.